The Developing Path And Strategy Study On The Textile Machinery Industry Of Korea, China And Japan

As a very important domain in textile industry, textile machinery industry has played a significant role in human-being's existence and improvement of people's living standard. As early as the period of Industry Revolution in Europe, chemical fiber loom, one of the representative textile machinery in textile machinery industry, has already appeared and become one of the motive powers to promote the development of Industry Revolution. The invention of textile machinery largely improved the productive forces of textile industry. So textile machinery industry became an obvious sign leading the growing of textile industry. Recently, the importance of textile machinery industry, which could guide the new fashion of clothing, is becoming evident, for example, in Italy, Germany, France, and Japan, etc. At present, the most advanced textile machinery industry area is Europe; textile machinery sold by the members of CEMATEX even has occupied 70% of the world textile machinery market. Especially in the past 10 years, those countries has always adjusted their textile machinery industry structure, and combined to collect and grasp the circumstances of every product and company in the main countries, then formed a competitive situation focusing on their competitors.From the situation of Korea, its products export of textile machinery industry take the fourth place in the world. But the technology intensiveness of textile machinery and the government policy towards textile industry are not beneficial to the domestic market, but beneficial to the export. So has formed an export-leading development pattern, then make the scale of textile machinery scattered, and backwards compared with advanced country in technology. When talking about China, the development of textile machinery industry has a certain scale, and keeps a very good collaborative relationship with advanced countries, and becomes a production base of components for advanced countries. From the productive technology aspect, China is making efforts to update its technology, but still has technology problem. Japan has its own special superiority in textile machinery industry, but also has some problem demanding prompt solution, such as standardization, regional applicability, etc.At present, Korea, China and Japan are all explore their new developing directions of textile machinery industry respectively, but the cooperation of those three countries in this area seems lagging, the three countries have lost the opportunity to cooperation for they all want to ensure their own competitiveness in the market. So, the text agrees that if Korea, China and Japan try to make a long term collaborative relationship, first, the stake among the three countries should be clarified, in order to build mutual principle and confidence. That is to say, technology transformation and mutual research and development can be put into practice by their modularization of textile machinery industry. Korea and China could build a long term technology developing system through the technology transformation of Japanese enterprises.Since this part could be replaced by Korea and China, Japanese domestic textile machinery industry should eliminate the middle and lower productive structure, and export manufacturing machinery with low price and high quality to Korea and China. Only in doing this could those three countries dominate Asian market, European market, etc, and then break the influence comes from other geographical groups.The whole text is composed of six sections. Section one is preface which illustrates the background and necessity of the study, the purpose and methods of the study, the status quo and main ideas of the study, and the innovations and inadequacy. Section two presents the relative theories about industry and industrial economics, including the definition and classification methods of industry, the meaning of industrial economics, the relative theories about industrial economics, which is industry organization theory, industry structure theory, industry connection theory, industry distribution theory, and industry development theory. Then through the analysis of those theories, seeks the theoretical basis which could help Korea, China and Japan to cooperate with each other in textile machinery industry.Section three analyzes the present situation, scale of the market, and technology development of the world textile machinery industry. 20c70s'Germany and the later Japan continued to keep a large share in the world textile market, and become the two magnates which are few and far between, as they are the first and second textile machinery manufacture country in the world. In order to guarantee their competitiveness, those important textile machinery producing countries have set up a great number of regulations in many ways, and intensified the confinement degree in products export market, which means more restrict in technology transformation, to secure their leading status. Section four describes the development paths, present situation and main characteristics of the textile machinery industry in Korea, China and Japan. Textile machinery industry of Korea has started since the end of 20c60s, and got a fast development under the strongly supporting of the government, and obtained certain achievement. Currently, as the fourth export country of textile machinery industry in the world, Korea has a proper place in the world market. But its domestic textile industry scale seems a little scattered, and compared with advanced countries, its production technology also seems to be fall behind. So it is necessary to promote its productive structure from now on, and strengthen its textile machinery's research and development into high-technology. Chinese textile industry plays a very important part in its domestic economy, but the level of its central technology and the grade of its products have to improve continuously. At present, the majority of the textile machinery enterprises are still at the stage of imitating other countries'products, and only minority of the products have their own intellectual property rights. Japan gets a leading position in the world in textile and textile machinery production, so have a strong competitiveness, and has been researching and developing the central technology of textile machinery, in order to produce world-class textile products in the world.Section five analyzes the development strategy of textile machinery industry in Korea, China and Japan. Korea has made great effort to develop an export-oriented textile machinery industry strategy. It has an intimate relationship with its whole outward-looking economic policy, which is increasing textile machinery export to improve its trade balance, and strengthening its competitiveness by promise the basic technology. As the biggest manufactory base in the world, China has been always noticing the accumulation of technology, and promoting the competitiveness of its product. Japan is now adjusting and improving its textile machinery industrial structure, and putting the Craft Production Strategy into practice. It also enhances the development and utilization of many kinds of advanced technology to consolidate its competitive superiority and respond the European textile machinery enterprises getting into Asia market.Section six is the conclusion, discusses the cooperation issue of Korea, China and Japan. The three countries need to formulate a medium and long term cooperation plan, and strengthen their cooperation with each other in every stage in this domain. Those three countries could form relatively uniform productive structure through the standardization and modularization of machinery products, and divide their work by modularization. First, analyze the three countries'products in order to set the possible cooperation areas in the modularization. Second, find the cooperation points which have relationship between the modularizations, such as the universality and standardization of the spare parts, a good direct investment and technology transformation environment for Japanese enterprises built by Korea and China, which could construct a cooperation platform for the three countries'textile machinery industry.